How the Covid is accelerating the transformation of American cities

The almost total reopening of major American cities in the coming days will not be enough to mask the crisis and avoid a serious questioning. Because whether it is New York, Los Angeles, Chicago or San Francisco, metropolises will no longer be quite the same in the post-Covid world.

The pandemic first accelerated an older trend: big cities no longer attract. This was already the case in New York and San Francisco, because of real estate prices. And, since the start of the crisis, for every 100 residents who have left New York, only 84 have settled there, according to data collected by Bloomberg from the US Postal Service and the Census Bureau.

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